Yes, yes, you know such rankings are never perfect; the Bongs (great, full or fractional) might not have been counted (or better still, were unfairly discriminated against); the top position is ephemeral and all that. But that shouldn’t stop you from celebrating…a little. Like all the hardworking staff who run this blog. Because, dear reader, your favourite blog squeezed past Digital Inspiration, Gauravonomics and other fine technology, business and management blogs.

When was the last time you found more people in a foreign policy seminar than in an IT exhibition or a management workshop?

Congratulations, Nitin. You are indeed popularizing foreign policy debate. But you are more than a foreign policy analyst. You are providing serious, sensible right of center perspective to most of the issues (your take on public policy, terrorism etc were popular too). I often see INI-Pragati as the right of center alternative to, say, the Frontline (of The Hindu), and you are leading it — so your blog has to be popular 🙂

I think the debates and discussions on your blog posts are consistently of a high quality, and one gets to read nuanced positions on various topics.

Reading The Acorn, Deeshaa (Atanu takes long breaks some times !) and of course Offstumped, has enriched my day-to-day life a lot. I take this opportunity to thank you all. And I am sure we all agree that Great Bong rocks !

India Uncut – I have nothing against Amit Varma, but why is his blog so hyped up? Just curious because I want to know what you think are India’s best blogs.

@Sriram: If I had to guess, I would say it doesn’t say anything about the state of the nation. Foreign policy “industry” employs far fewer people than IT or management, so it has fewer seminars/workshops and generally (though not always) fewer people in attendance. That’s true for most of the civilised world, unless you count LeT training camps as foreign policy seminars.

@Kumar, IMO Bastiat prize is what made IU popular (though I think most people visit IU for WTF and Cow stories 🙂 In fact Sauvik is delivering more libertarian content these days and Amit is busy promoting MFS.

Sriram, I wouldn’t consider this blog outranking IT and management blogs to be a good sign for India. Development is still India’s primary problem {I’d say development is still the primary problem of the US, so don’t assume I’m insulting India}. IT and management blogs and their readers probably contribute more directly to development than this blog.

Get never can you your Yoda wrong. Top in India this blog is sense makes Top blog in India this is same.

da Atanu

(The Acorn has risen due to its gravity. Since I cannot add anything to such grave matters as the Acorn addresses, I have to take the opportunity to comment on a post tagged levity. My levity has sunk me. Over and out 🙂

Honestly, I had always assumed that the audience for this blog would be quite small and why you are wasting your time writing such top quality stuff while the impact would be limited. But happily, this survey disproves my assumption.

Keep up the good work!

BTW, could you clarify if this blog is backed up by a business model (looks unlikley, i dont see any ads)? Or is it a not-for-profit venture funded by donors (if so, who are they?)?

Our very own Offstumped can give everyone a tough fight, if we look at frequency of posting, Quality of content and Reader comments.

What do you think about this Acorn?

Ranjith

Congratulations, Nitin. You are indeed popularizing foreign policy debate. But you are more than a foreign policy analyst. You are providing serious, sensible right of center perspective to most of the issues (your take on public policy, terrorism etc were popular too). I often see INI-Pragati as the right of center alternative to, say, the Frontline (of The Hindu), and you are leading it — so your blog has to be popular 🙂

I think the debates and discussions on your blog posts are consistently of a high quality, and one gets to read nuanced positions on various topics.

Reading The Acorn, Deeshaa (Atanu takes long breaks some times !) and of course Offstumped, has enriched my day-to-day life a lot. I take this opportunity to thank you all. And I am sure we all agree that Great Bong rocks !

India Uncut – I have nothing against Amit Varma, but why is his blog so hyped up? Just curious because I want to know what you think are India’s best blogs.

BOK

@Sriram: If I had to guess, I would say it doesn’t say anything about the state of the nation. Foreign policy “industry” employs far fewer people than IT or management, so it has fewer seminars/workshops and generally (though not always) fewer people in attendance. That’s true for most of the civilised world, unless you count LeT training camps as foreign policy seminars.

raghu

Congratulations!

Acorn is in fact setting standards for Foreign Policy discussion !!

@Kumar, IMO Bastiat prize is what made IU popular (though I think most people visit IU for WTF and Cow stories 🙂 In fact Sauvik is delivering more libertarian content these days and Amit is busy promoting MFS.

Sriram, I wouldn’t consider this blog outranking IT and management blogs to be a good sign for India. Development is still India’s primary problem {I’d say development is still the primary problem of the US, so don’t assume I’m insulting India}. IT and management blogs and their readers probably contribute more directly to development than this blog.

Get never can you your Yoda wrong. Top in India this blog is sense makes Top blog in India this is same.

da Atanu

(The Acorn has risen due to its gravity. Since I cannot add anything to such grave matters as the Acorn addresses, I have to take the opportunity to comment on a post tagged levity. My levity has sunk me. Over and out 🙂

sai

Congrats!

Honestly, I had always assumed that the audience for this blog would be quite small and why you are wasting your time writing such top quality stuff while the impact would be limited. But happily, this survey disproves my assumption.

Keep up the good work!

BTW, could you clarify if this blog is backed up by a business model (looks unlikley, i dont see any ads)? Or is it a not-for-profit venture funded by donors (if so, who are they?)?